German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has agreed to supply Ukraine with Leopard battle tanks, sources in government circles told the dpa news agency on Tuesday.
Poland had warned Monday that it was ready to do without the endorsement of Berlin, undecided on the issue, to deliver German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine, where Russian forces continue to claim small advances on the ground.
In this context, the European Union announced that it was granting an additional 500 million euros to supply armaments to kyiv and allocating 45 million euros for the training of Ukrainian soldiers on EU territory.
Sign of growing tensions with Moscow, two of the three Baltic countries, Estonia and Latvia, each announced during the day their decision to expel the Russian ambassador on their soil, following in the footsteps of Lithuania which had made even last year.
